David Almond Quotes

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

All students can learn.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

The value of a good education has never left me.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.

English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.